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The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to allow a ban on transgender people in the military to temporarily go into effect while court cases challenging the plan make their way through the legal system.
U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco filed a brief Thursday night asking that if the Supreme Court doesn’t take up cases surrounding the ban during its current term, that it be allowed to immediately go into effect while the lower courts determine how to proceed. He asked the court to consider the brief by early January.
“It is with great reluctance that we seek such emergency relief in this court,” Francisco wrote Thursday in regards to one of those court challenges, according to The Hill. “Unfortunately this case is part of a growing trend in which federal district courts, at the behest of particular plaintiffs, have issued nationwide injunctions, typically on a preliminary basis, against major policy initiatives.”
The ban was initially proposed by President Donald Trump last July via Twitter, who said transgender people created “tremendous medical costs and disruption” in the armed services, a reversal after former President Barack Obama allowed them to serve openly.
Four lower courts have blocked the rollout of the ban, issuing temporary injunctions amid challenges from civil rights organizations. Thousands of transgender troops have continued to serve as the cases make their way through the court system, according to the Washington Post.
Francisco has argued that allowing transgender people to serve would be “too great a risk to military effectiveness and lethality.” The website SCOTUSblog notes that the solicitor general said without Supreme Court intervention it could be “at least another year and likely well into 2020″ before the ban could go into effect.
″[That’s] a period too long for the military to be forced to maintain a policy that it has determined, in its professional judgment, to be contrary to the national interest,” he wrote.
In a federal appeals court earlier this month, the Trump administration also argued that it was “truly extraordinary” that judges had blocked the new policy.
The Trump administration last month asked the Supreme Court to fast-track the case before appeals can make their way through the federal court system, saying it was “an issue of imperative public importance.”
Supreme Court rules state that it will only take a case that has yet to go through the federal appeals court circuit if it has such a level of “imperative” importance “to justify deviation from normal appellate practice and to require immediate determination in this court,” The New York Times reports.
The proposal to fast-track the court process was slammed by civil rights groups last month.
“This highly unusual step is wildly premature and inappropriate,” Peter Renn, a lawyer with the group Lambda Legal, said in a statement. “Yet again, the Trump administration flouts established norms and procedures. There is no valid reason to jump the line now and seek U.S. Supreme Court review before the appellate courts have even ruled on the preliminary issues before them.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/transgender-military-ban-justice-department_us_5c133233e4b0f60cfa27aaad

President Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity and to give away its remaining money amid allegations that he used the foundation for his personal and political benefit, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced Tuesday.
Underwood said that the Donald J. Trump Foundation is dissolving as her office pursues its lawsuit against the charity, Trump and his three eldest children.
The suit, filed in June, alleged “persistently illegal conduct” at the foundation and sought to have it shut down. Underwood is continuing to seek more than $2.8 million in restitution and has asked a judge to ban the Trumps temporarily from serving on the boards of other New York nonprofit organizations.
Underwood said Tuesday that her investigation found “a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation — including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more.”
“This is an important victory for the rule of law, making clear that there is one set of rules for everyone,” she added in a statement.
The shuttering comes after The Washington Post documented apparent lapses at the foundation. Trump used the charity’s money to pay legal settlements for his private business, to purchase art for one of his clubs and to make a prohibited political donation.
Trump denied that the organization had done anything wrong. In late 2016, he said he wanted to close the foundation, but the New York attorney general blocked that move while it investigated.
The settlement with Underwood’s office represents a concession by Trump to a state investigation he decried as a partisan attack. The case is one of numerous legal investigations of Trump organizations that have proliferated during his presidency.
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEA1hMJcOV3oN9VadbOm-YxoqGAgEKg8IACoHCAowjtSUCjC30XQwzqe5AQ?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US%3Aen

So here's one it goes:
The person before you posts a picture.
You guess what album cover its from.
If you get it right, you edit an album cover (that want used within 5 rounds - one round starts when a picture is posted and ends when someone guesses right) and crop it to any section of the cover and let others guess what it is from.
Lemme start

Rihanna
Talk That Talk
Talk That Talk
We Found Love
You Da One
Where Have You Been
Red Lipstick
Birthday Cake
Cockiness (I Love it)
Roc Me Out
Watch N Learn
Do Ya Thang
Drunk on Love
Fool in Love
We All Want Love
Farewell
Taylor Swift
reputation
...Ready for It?
Look What You Made Me Do
I Did Something Bad
Delicate
This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Don't Blame Me
Dress
Dancing with Our Hands Tied
Getaway Car
Gorgeous
New Years Day
So it Goes...
King of My Heart
Call it What You Want